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That's not normal market behavior, something changed.
Dude, ive literally been in meetings where were it was decided to increase prices by 80% based on the zipcode you were from.
It absolutely is normal market behavior. These fuckers pull this kind of shit all the time. Hell during trumps last admin they killed some worker pay thing and immediately businesses gave a bonus to workers that was worth a fraction of what the bill would have given workers as a ploy.
Hell in this thread alone you can see the massive variability of prices based on regions and no, its not because of mysterious market forces. You dont go from 8 to 2 dollars in a couple months due to market forces for a product that has a lead time of 3-4 months (the time it takes for a chicken to mature and produce eggs)
What has happened here is essentially: flu killed off a truck load of chickens, prices sky rocketted due to supply/demand and farmers redirecting to chicken production to restore the supply. Then as the chickens matured prices stabalized back down. And during this period middle men jacked up the prices because they had cover of a supply issue to blame beyond what the reality dictated.
But this took awhile to occur and started well before this admin. Has nothing to do with testing as you asserted with 100% confidence, in fact trsting is how we managed to limited the damage. Nor does it justify 12.99/dozen prices in one region and 4 in another were both regions magically reverted by 50+% to the baseline.
actually that's quite normal if something like a disease were to come through a region. The variability in price by region is inherent in the deterioration of all food stuffs. It's why avocados are cheaper in the SW and oranges are cheaper in the SE. Eggs are also regional, but they're in every region. This is why there's wildly different prices in eggs, because bird flu might be wreaking havoc 2 states over, but isn't a big deal where you live.
That being said, eggs dropping 50% and milk by more than 100% in any one market? That is unusual market behavior.
They're paying people to take milk now?